On this day: Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years dies in 2005

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 2: 1905 – The Simplon rail tunnel under the Alps linking Switzerland with Italy officially opened. 1974 – French president Georges Pompidou died in office. 1982 – Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, leading to a war in which it tried to wrest them […]

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